Letter: No time for nonsensical ideas in the Statehouse

Friday

Feb 10, 2017 at 8:00 PM

It’s not necessary to beat the lifeless horse about Illinois’ do-nothing legislature that continues to kick the symbolic can down the road for future do-nothing leaders to carry on an apathetic tradition. We are keenly aware of Illinois’ whopping failure to come together and resolve the state’s financial Catch-22.

Out of this financial chaos, we have freshman Sen. Tom Rooney, R-Rolling Meadows, who apparently promotes himself as a progressive thinker and believes Illinois has too many state symbols and wants to eliminate them because, he says, they’re not of much value.

“So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.” — Gene Wilder in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory." This is what we get from a new kid on the block who doesn’t recognize important work.

We probably can say the same about Illinois legislators as well. Forget the possibilities of a state employee strike, Illinois’ disappointing credit rating disappearing down the rabbit hole, a dreadful budget mess and a handful of despotic state leaders who hold us in bondage and create numerous, non-productive activities to deflect us from their lack of duty.

The net result? Businesses and people are escaping en masse, thanks to the lackluster work ethic of our so-called state leaders and our new senator who prioritizes the removal of state symbols as important legislation. If anything, he has become the poster boy for nonsensical ideas and is even naïve enough to claim it as his own. And, this is what voters are electing.

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